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Did Goodluck Jonathan pay $1 million from anti-poverty fund to bring Beyonce and Jay-Z to Nigeria?
February 22, 2013 By 18 Comments
Watching the African Nations Cup with Ghana fans on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn
February 5, 2013 By 6 Comments
While the Ghanaian migrant community in New York City is centered in the Bronx, there is a smaller, yet equally as Afcon-enthusiastic population of Ghanaians in the Flatbush/Crown Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Meytex Cafe on Flatbush Avenue is part social club, part Ghanaian restaurant, and part bar/party space that provides a social center for the […]
Would Susan Rice have been a good choice for US Secretary of State?
January 24, 2013 By 5 Comments
Remember Susan Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State who wasn’t? It might seem old news now, as Senator John Kerry sits in front of his colleagues seeking their constitutionally-mandated “consent” to his appointment to become the next U.S. Secretary of State, replacing Hillary Rodham Clinton. In the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election in November, […]
BILL CLINTON ENDED HARD TIMES IN HAITI
October 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Bill Clinton turns revisionist historian (as quoted in a story in “The New York Times” this morning: “I hated it,” Mr. Clinton said of the economic sanctions he enforced during his presidency. “But when you have people being burned to death with tires around their necks, that’s important, too. We had to bring an end […]
